A Council on American-Islamic Relations adviser and regular speaker at its
events has suggested Islamic law permits Muslims to attack C-130 military
transport planes carrying the 82nd Airborne out of Fort Bragg, N.C.,
according to a stunning new book exposing Washington-based CAIR’s inner
workings.

Radical Islamic cleric Zaid Shakir, a frequent guest speaker at CAIR events,
tells his Muslim audiences: “Jihad is physically fighting the enemies of
Islam to protect and advance the religion of Islam. This is jihad.”

Acceptable targets of jihad, he says, include U.S. military aircraft.

“Islam doesn’t permit us to hijack airplanes filled with civilian people,”
Shakir once told a Muslim audience. However, “If you hijack an airplane
filled with the 82nd Airborne, that’s something else.”

The 82nd Airborne Division’s elite paratroopers fly out of Fort Bragg, N.C.,
which is part of North Carolina state Sen. Larry Shaw’s district. Shaw is
CAIR’s new chairman.

The bombshell revelation comes in the wake of the worst military massacre at
a domestic U.S. military base in American history, and the worst Islamic
terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11.

Last week, Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly gunned down in cold blood
more than 50 of his fellow soldiers preparing to deploy to Iraq and
Afghanistan from Fort Hood, Texas. Eyewitnesses say before opening fire,
Hasan jumped up on a desk and screamed, “Allahu akbar!” like the 9/11
hijackers. The suspect fatally shot 13, including a security guard. The death toll is actually 14 when a slain unborn child is counted.

Imam Shakir also gives his blessing to the use of bombs as a weapon of
jihad, as long as the explosives hit “select” targets and are not
indiscriminate in their destruction. Civilians can be a legitimate target,
he says, if “there’s a benefit in that,” according to “Muslim Mafia,”
co-authored by former federal agent P. David Gaubatz and investigative
journalist Paul Sperry, author of “Infiltration.”

Even “old elderly men” and “women who are conscripted” – including Israeli
and American women in uniform – are eligible enemy combatants in jihad.
“This is Shariah,” Shakir asserts in a CD recording of one of
his lectures in 2001, which the authors obtained from a radical mosque
bookstore in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Shakir, a black convert, has been portrayed as a moderate in the mainstream
media, including the New York Times, which recently ran a positive profile
of him. His pro-jihad statements revealed in “Muslim Mafia” have not been
previously reported. CAIR has sued and obtained a temporary restraining
order to censor the book’s documentary evidence detailing CAIR’s support of
terrorism and obstruction of FBI investigations.

“If we go to war, brothers and sisters – and one day we will, believe me –
that’s why you’re commanded [to fight in] jihad,” the imam has told his
flock in Brooklyn. “When Allah demands us to fight, we’re not stopping and
nobody’s stopping us.”

World Trade Center bombing

CAIR has invited Shakir back to speak at its events even after the FBI
questioned him about a copy of one of his incendiary pamphlets found in the
apartment of a suspect in the first World Trade Center bombing. The
pro-jihad pamphlet lauded the “armed struggle” that brought about the rule
of the Taliban in Afghanistan, where U.S. troops are dying in record numbers
from Taliban and al-Qaida ambushes.

Shakir, who recently confided to the New York Times that he’d like to see
the U.S. “become a Muslim country” ruled by Islamic law, is a regular
speaker at CAIR as well as Islamic Society of North America events. (Federal
prosecutors say CAIR and ISNA are fronts for the terrorist group Hamas and
its parent the radical Muslim Brotherhood, and the sister organizations were
recently listed as unindicted terrorist co-conspirators in the largest
terror finance case in U.S. history.) Recently, Shakir helped host workshops
and delivered keynote speeches at banquets held at CAIR chapters in Chicago,
Orlando and San Diego, among others.

“Imam Zaid’s speeches are very practical and bring the best out of his
listeners,” said former CAIR official Ibrahim Moiz, a close personal friend
who invited Shakir to speak to Muslims in Maryland, according to “Muslim
Mafia.”

The cleric has not tempered his jihadist views.

“I don’t regret anything I’ve done or said,” Shakir has insisted.

Shakir holds little, if any, respect for law enforcement, particularly the
FBI, according to “Muslim Mafia.” He constantly belittles the bureau in
speeches to Muslims, even warning them that the FBI frames Muslims for
terrorism – terrorist acts that he contends the FBI secretly commits.

“The World Trade Center bombing of course was aided and abetted by our good
friends at the FBI,” the imam has claimed, in just one of the many wild-eyed
conspiracy theories he peddles.

‘State within a state’

Larry Shaw

The American Muslim cleric also preaches treason against the United States,
according to the book, which hit No. 5 on Amazon.com’s non-fiction best-seller
list the day after it was released last month. It currently ranks No. 1 in
books on terrorism and Islam.

Shakir advises the Muslim community in America to wage a cultural jihad now,
and a violent jihad later – once the proper “infrastructure” is in place.

He says Muslims should respect American democracy insofar as it can be
exploited to help the Brotherhood one day assume power here.

And the only thing that could stop the Islamization of America, he notes, is
if its people rose up and denied the subversive movement the unbridled
freedom it’s heretofore enjoyed.

However, if Americans were to do that, Muslims would then be obligated, he
says, to exercise their supposedly “divine legal right” to rise up and wage
violent jihad, reveals the book “Muslim Mafia.”

“What a great victory it will be for Islam to have this country in the fold
and ranks of the Muslims,” sermonized Shakir, who continues to be a marquee
speaker at CAIR functions.

For now, he said, following the radical Muslim Brotherhood playbook, Muslims
must continue to “create a state within a state.”

IMPORTANT NOTE: The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, is suing “Muslim Mafia” co-author P. David Gaubatz and his son Chris over the evidentiary documents they obtained during Chris’ six-month undercover penetration of the organization, which both the FBI and Justice Department have branded as a terror co-conspirator. As a result of revelations in “Muslim Mafia,” the bipartisan Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus is calling for new, wide-ranging federal probes of CAIR. In the meantime, however, someone has to defend these two courageous investigators who have, at great personal risk, revealed so much about this dangerous group. WND has stepped up to the plate, procured the best First Amendment attorneys in the country and is paying for the Gaubatzes’ defense – but we can’t do it without your help. Please donate to WND’s Legal Defense Fund now. Thank you.